C.M. Saunders

Welsh writer and journalist Chris Saunders, who publishes fiction as C.M. Saunders, began writing in 1997, his early work appearing in several small-press titles. His first book, Into the Dragon's Lair - A Supernatural History of Wales was published in 2003. After graduating with a degree in journalism from Southampton Solent university he worked extensively in the freelance market, contributing to numerous international publications including Fortean Times, Chat, Its Fate! Bizarre, Urban Ink, Enigma, Record Collector, Nuts and Maxim, and a regular column to the Western Mail newspaper. He has held desk jobs at several newsstand magazines and is now gainfully employed in the trade press.

Since returning to dark fiction he has had stories published in Screams of Terror, Shallow Graves, Dark Valentine, Fantastic Horror, Unbroken Waters, Gore magazine, The Literary Hatchet and others, as well as numerous anthologies. These works have been collected in his X series of short fiction, which currently stands at seven volumes. His novellas Apartment 14F, Out of Time, Dead of Night, Devil's Island, No Man's Land: Horror in the Trenches, Human Waste, and Tethered, are available now, as are his acclaimed historical novels Sker House and The Wretched Bones and his series of Western horror books featuring Dylan Decker. His latest release is Blood Lake on Undertaker Books.